DDoS Tag

By Robin Dishon, Senior Writer, ESET
What is a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack? Here's how it works, and what you can do to keep your devices from being hijacked by a botnet.
Friday’s massive DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks on major providers of the...

Twitter, Spotify and Reddit, and a huge swath of other websites were down or screwed up this morning. This was happening as hackers unleashed a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the servers of Dyn, a major DNS host. It’s probably safe to...

Dozens of the nation’s most popular websites — including Twitter, PayPal, Airbnb , Netflix, Reddit and Spotify — were disrupted Friday by a major cyber attack that exposed the fragile nature of the Internet.
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Source: Who launched cyber attack that hit Twitter, Paypal, HBO? - The San Diego Union-Tribune
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